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Posted on April 3, 2007

Statement of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander on today’s decision by the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Court held that carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must consider regulating it: "The most appropriate legislative response would be a four-pollutant bill, such as the bipartisan legislation Sen. Carper and I coauthored in the last Congress, which would codify the EPA’s strict new standards for sulfur and nitrogen pollutants, set a high mercury standard, and begin carbon caps on power plants."